Postgraduate Scholarships
Postgraduate scholarships are the biggest category for Sri Lankan applicants — Chevening, Commonwealth, Fulbright, Erasmus Mundus, Australia Awards, and university merit awards. We track active deadlines and sequence parallel applications.
391 active awards for Sri Lankan applicants.
USTP - University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
Eligibility
Third-country (non-EU/EEA) students in six named digital and creative programmes who finish in the top 20% of their cohort each semester.
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Eligibility
Applicants and students of all nationalities at LASALLE College of the Arts, awarded on academic merit and creative potential.
SeAMK - Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
Eligibility
Non-EU/EEA students admitted to SeAMK's English-taught Bachelor's or Master's degrees who pay the full year's tuition by the deadline.
FH Oberösterreich (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)
Eligibility
Enrolled FH Upper Austria students, including third-country nationals, with a grade average below 2.0 after their first semester.
University of Canterbury International College (UCIC)
Eligibility
International students meeting the academic entry requirements for a UCIC pathway programme into the University of Canterbury.
Aga Khan Foundation (tenable at top global universities)
Eligibility
Sri Lanka is NOT on the Aga Khan Foundation's eligible-country list. The programme runs only in Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. Listed here so Sri Lankan applicants do not lose months to an application they cannot submit.
University of Oxford
Eligibility
Sri Lanka has no Rhodes constituency. Sri Lankans could previously apply only through the Global Scholarship, which the Rhodes Trust suspended in 2026. There is currently no route from Sri Lanka.
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